Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
Kabir
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Poet
Weaver
Writer
Benares
Kabir Sahib
Worship
Therefore
Fruitless
Gives
Avail
Speak
Speaks
Anything
Stone
Giving
Stones
Service
Neither
More quotes by Kabir
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
Kabir
Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
Kabir
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
Kabir
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
Kabir
Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
Kabir
I went in search of a bad person I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
Kabir
As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.
Kabir
Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
Kabir
The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being the true God is ever with him.
Kabir
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
Kabir
My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
Kabir
I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.
Kabir
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
Kabir
Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.
Kabir
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
Kabir
Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion
Kabir
The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
Kabir
What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
Kabir
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
Kabir
I do not quote from the scriptures I simply see what I see.
Kabir
